Wednesday, January 04, 2006

TX #1, CA #2 (for a change)

National Championship Rose Bowl: Texas 41, USC 38

I'm exhausted. That game was incredible. The most amazing comeback since, well, this (ahhh, savor the memory). Houstonian Vince Young is clearly not human - some sort of genetic/bionic superman secret experiment (note to the Texans: forget Bush, trade Carr, draft Young, pack stadiums). At the end, it even engaged my completely sports-indifferent Longhorn step-daughters, which is an amazing feat in itself.

Mildly interesting fact: I was one month old when Texas won its last football national championship.

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for what its worth, USC actually did a national service by losing the games. Instead of the limited fan/alumni-base of a smaller private school being able to enjoy the fruits of victory, the much larger fan/alumni base of UT was able to enjoy the taste of victory (not to mention the UCLA's fan/alumni base enjoying USC's bitterness in defeat).

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